The Sun. — London, England, 1838-09-26 00:00:00

aan d 1 1 A A f r ell* . 6 0 jo. 2 9t 0 ,6°11 _ r erl cle• t o ff re .•.. 'Oro. 9414 nt , 33 4 •-• .... •••" IBA ..... . f. ..... i cr;* )AYE' THE DOWNFALL OF ENGLAND. " Throurbout the world, England has no friend. She xists, point of fact, but by sufferance. She trades but 7lipo e u the remains of that reputation, which her energies won, .111% those energies were directed by a breed of statesmen 7oarealant from the present. A combination between the lead ?oganemies of Ensland may reduce her, in a moment, to the dal , of a third-rate power. Russia, France, and the United `thbtates--all these Powers have the strongest reasons to desire aie extinction of England, as a Power of the first class. Rus a regard s E ngland as the only barrier to her plans of univcr pal erapire. But for England, France might hope to extend er dominion over the whole of the West of Europe ; whilst by the depression of England, France would secure compen sation for a long list of unatoned-for mortification'. To the soyerthrow of England, the United States look for the posses ion of the whole North American continent, as well as for t3ie inheritane4 of the larger portion of the trade of the world I • * tion of All O'Con ne ll' s sc h emes ten d to t h e prostra th tbe Br tie power of E ng l an d , an d to the dismemberment of sh empire —and dyet the men who administer the air s of th at empire are his nominees I Truly the glory of hl England bath departed I"—Morning Herald of yesterday. Englstnd ! once so great, so merry, Prostrate *fore the King of Kerry; Mighty ban I who makes a flail Por thrashing Europe, of his tail. Dark's ib , e doom that waits upon thee, Should :Dan not take some pity on the, As thou. shivirest, spent and hoary, Deserted by thine own " Old Glory I" Whi'ie Nick, the Czar, attacks thy dry-land, And Uncle Sam grasps Navy Island, The King of Barricades and Cits Drives thee with terror into fits, As ev;ized with Nap's imperial ire, He :sets Old Father Thames on fire; And threatens thee—nay, do not falter-- Witch knout, and guillotine, and halter ! Brit cheer up England I—trust me yet, Thy Sun of Glory hath not set ; `thou hest of heroes and of sages Names would adorn old Chaucer's pages ; So arm'd for war of words or blows, Thou still marst laugh at all thy foes. 'Gainst the great Nero of the north, ',Send noble Vane in armour forth, h. take of his last new book a banner, And Nick will fly, I'll pledge my honour : Dullness invincible thy sight Will put all Russia's boors to flight. To frighten France, invoke the fame Of Sibthorp's dread moustache and name; The Colon el's phiz, in days of yore, 'Tis acid kept Bony from our shore ; And time.—to save us from our errors, Has kindly- added to its terrors ! To humble Sam, pray, who so fit As Ben, tae senatorial chit ? While the proud chief of Darrynane S inks 'ne - ath the thunders of Shoe-lane ; And bus, from all th ose d angers c l ear Wh ich now poor Gr a n n y fill w i t h f ea r, Old E ngland, with her flag unfurl'd, MaY Once again defy the world I D O THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. r aper s ";t 1 ' bout twelve months ago, or more, appeared in the •whi eh il b lin account of a trial of th Electrical Telegraph (for Lend ro fessor 'Wheatstone hash Patent) on the line of the it °la at id Birmingham Railway, as far as Watford, I believe. Was t hen stated that the experiment had been perfectly su e t was ie.l.t w ould be desi ra bl e t o k now if t h e commun i cat i on h as ne carried along the whole line by the Railway Company, 2tr4lB°E!o consider whether the exclusive possession of such fete with, the interests rut nary means ot of the public. communication be not likely to inter , I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W ycombe, Sept. 22. X. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. e ‘ , e 114 .--The liberality iith which you open your columns t o Zinq well f unded complaint, leads me to believe, that yo u t ; give insertion to one immediately connected with the in ns of literature. ttii'lle Trustees of the British Aluzeum have re sh ce a n ll tl r y es t h e e Likat the frequenters of the reading room . in to a re de al a l bl ie 7° 4 3 Which they have had occasion t to consult, to the responsible for their Mons e1.0.m which they are issued, or o tp_ s p 4p r e , es i t lljury, should either arise. first t is known sight tmaythat it - e i- - : " n ly 4 reasonable precaution, buf when en at i ziitill ?er;elatlemen—aye, and ladies, too—to the necessity lltraversing the length of the reading rooms, no small distance,. t ten or a dozen folio or quarto volumes, I think 1 evi i il C r-uni'i•ted, that no persons having the liberal feelings . e fo eej d 1 tuntiorno,":uill"° d istinguish the authorities of a learned insti ave framed such a rule, or could continue to thefts are committed, as it is to be feared is f te r i beflu p e e n r tBlintilicase, the Trustees are to be blamed for admit without due care. To guard against the conse iltiences of their own neglect of duty, they have no right to .. 11 ! /Ul t the respectable frequenters of the place. To the exa ls 'nation of the hooks no one would object, but it might and Ncl be made without outraging common decency. DETECTOR. SPORT IN G IN TELLIGEN CE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. 2V.€ &,, W CASTLE RACES. 1840.—N0 D 4 r FI X E D te ee pstakes of 10 sovs. each, for foals of 1838, to run when two ; 83.3 old ; colts, Bst. 41b ; and fillies, Bst. The second to save j"take • T. Y' ' .C. ..,, L ord .1 Eglinton's ch. c. bvMuley Moloch, out of Spaewife ; Lord • , ....int,..., Ls'Yl, us b. f. by Afule lifoloch, out of Rectitudeßell's b. irarbVoltaire, oit of Go Y lden Drop's dam l ; Mr. Hesseltine's b. . leton 13aylock, by Worlaby Baylock, or Peter Liberty, out of hbftcr,iptions dam; Mr. Hesseltine's b. f. petty Baylock, by Wor t" rraylock, out of Slashing Harry's dam ; Mr. Parkins's br. a w p a Z y P . OO A I, d. by Emilio . s . ; , Mr. Blakelock's b. f. by Voltaire, oin limud , , Ir. J. 0. Fairhe s br. f. by Rockingham, out of A Ito% °l. ' dam ; Mr. Attwood's br. or gr. c. by his bay stallion,_ v . , er to Ares, out of Clint's dam ; Mr. G. Dawson's br. c. Langar, QUT Par of ~,tis°.. y Cleveland ; Mr. Stephenson's b. c. by 1%/0 ,voltaire's dam ; Mr. Orde's ch. c. 1\ illey-boy, by Aluley Jer;" , out of Tomboy's darn ; Mr. Alexander's b. er br. c. by_ cia,Yz out of Theresa ; Lord Kelburne's b. C. by Muley Moloch, or Ar Acton; Lord Kelburne's bl. c. by Aluley Moloch, t ou o t ,14bi1e132 Wilip • Mr. S. King's b. c. by Muley Moloch, ou Lass. ~,„ ; Mr. 61ilton's b. or br. f. by Langar, out of Fisher 4 Ile L„, 1a41.-- o DIY FIXED. ind .`..'"'l'Y Stakes of 10 sou l s each, with 50 added for the winner, % L A) to the second, for foals of 1838 ; colts, Bst. 41b ; and fillies, tittr.,„ l‘ .. l4o Miles. In ease of a walk over the added money will to r F given fkii' Lglinton's ch c. by Muley Moloch, out of Spaewife; Lord ller:4o's b. f. by 111uley Moloch, out of Rectitude ; Mr. Hessel %tit ; I,' e• narnbleton Bay ‘ lock ; Air. Hesseltine's b. f. Betty Ba N y_- . It. tt.'''''• Par kin's In.. c by Liverpool, dam by Emilius ; Mr. V _ kve - " rn ik i sa rs bl. or br. C. Inheritance, ' by Muley Moloch, out of dori;rr• S. O. br. f, by Rockingham, out of Am b ba t ssa e; to A re :rn . ; Mr. At br. or gr. c. by his bay stallion, h v., k. g General Sharpe's Lana, by Langar, out of Alyrrh l a. r • o Mr. l d aV ik i ° , 11 : b I A . j e t fr..; PabdBottle,lis ,se b ell .. s. or ro. c. by Velocipede, out of Ga ei:ood's on'sb y Langar, out of Voltaire's li d l at k n e_ ; by Aluley Al , oloch, out of Fanny Mr. a -.ol tib ov -y voltaire, out of lancy ; Captain Potts's b. C. by ' A leza " d am by Voltaire • Mr. Orde's ch. e. Wilyboy ; Mr . . .; e• b il v de N r ?,b• or br. c. by Jerry, of . Theresa; Lord Kelburne s Lititir,.4str.v.locl:orrchli,etaine,iib!' Actwon J. 'vt le f% uteYAloloch out of :Hiss Whip ; Lord Kelburne's b. c. by d's ' clam ; 0. FairlieWil lukt,, h . ..).. Iri , c. b by m S oi a e tan A , l o o u lo t e V: o A u b t r o a f ha j m obi N le e o w ; lan 1 . by l kr; Q. bib.. Ni y cholas, Y . out of Olive Leaf ; Mr. Kirby's b o l : testy 015 Y Alai Mr. Brisk 1, , out of c °ell, out of Miss Ive , sby Co 46 1 . Last. arnation ; Mr. Chilton s b. or be. I. by Langar, out of a t t ti z ott ri c o or ri v e i t A s : _ e : 11 1.2 . :: e r : vr e A n a t r r ' m * AQUATICS. t t h e -NE REGATTA.--The lin Tl , sixteenth annual contest us state nti A .o rundol- Some 13 t , if the - 1; 'e: t 11 1) 0 1 a r e , ew-Yoonsiteilrhdapavye);a afforded r d d , a e b t d u m t S f t u o r c a r h n t a d h - r e l a a u t i i n i fi e p e r a a o t n i p d o i th‘thri,g:4t whom vvon er t e he th ri e ser celebrated served their John t time e at Mitchell, these thestairs; e x . Clui:;"4, and Jem Parish, the coxswain of the Great Leander in e ttol • k The contest was with ten pairs of sculls, two pairs in oft %%at, and in two heats. The distance was, to start I f , x. alod r e , i t etriiie stairs up round a boat moored facing the ma u ck- Nr - ...i;'n - Hill, down the north shore, round a boat at i lleit: tu ge, up again to the Fox-under-the-Hill, and fin t i w sh o ,z,,tIA Strand -lane. The following were in readiness Ail l i7 it • for the first heat •R . hard Godfrey and F..Go a d t frey, ti*ly3hT• Anderson and . T. T l i c sdell, yellow ; Br ington l tad j. , le S. Godfrey and J. Parish, green ;J. Y ac. co__,. Qculltlsorpe 14ntlaglY the W. Parish and J. , white. Pink came in last and were only pair thrown out of the second and grand b l ue At five o'clock, after the men had refreshed, yellow, ~ren, and white, took their stations for the final struggle. ine f or I ; o art v. -a s verY good, the whole of the men beingl In d a white * 4 , eio ur three minutes Blue first had the lead, t atmd ,-e the ; yellow and green were together, but the an former eirti nl. e4 the wrong aide of the buoy, and of course lost their lew 4tha ; 13 1u? ro wed on in advance, and won by about four white Was second, and green third. 5ir dw ..2_,,aenr..........m.. .... „, ...e5an............. • I t a l y, f d and Lady K err i son l e f t town on Mon ip,_ ar or Oakle ar y Pa r k, Suffolk, where large parties for shoot- Me•T expected d uring the ensuing months. r R,. ti ow ,-,-LERIPF T. WOOD'S STATE DRESSES are pleo.un inspection at the shop of Messrs. Swain and Co., , ot t-stree The coats are of blue cloth, with white . breasts apo/eon ; the skirts have white u ver 4 o lci facings, which turn 10a:tell's: outside, and are fastened together by embroidered , containing the Sheriff's arms richly emblazoned ; the ~_: badges are also placed upon the shoulder-straps, of very rich e i r d _ n 1 e ,_°ldered. Around the collar and cuff are wreaths of oak, cm- On each of the badges before alluded to is worked the it'"_oyo of the Sheriff, video meliora proboque. The waistcoats, L i a t tt t the cressne.m n ether-garments, are of white cloth, the th ! r I."`,ving u arianknot, very handsomely worked on ii From their chu,te and light api:c . arance thesedresses f e ant r w ho ,g . eat credit upon Swain and Co., and upon uesigned them. the a COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Yesterday the Queen did not ride out This afterncon her Majesty rode out in the park on horse back, accompanied by her Royal Highne ss the Duchess of Kent, Viscount Palmerston. Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Col. Cavendish, Hon. C. A. Murray, the Earl of Surrey, Lady Portman, and Lord Lilford. The following are the distinguished visiters at the Castle I Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Ladies Portman, M. Stopford, r.nd Forbes ; Baroness LeLzen, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson ' Visceunt Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Lilford, Colc.:el Armstrong, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Hon. C. A. Murray, and the Earl of Surrey. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Viscountess Barrington and the Hon. Miss Gore, took a carriage drive in the Parks yesterday morning. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wiemar ar rived at Marlborough House on Monday, from Sandhurst. Mr. T. H. Brooking, and Mr. Christophers, of Newfound. land, had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dr. Hynes, Mr. Fairbanks, Mr. G. F. Lewis, Mr. J. Mantell, Mr. Pennington, and Mr. Newmarch had also interviews with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Despatches for Sir E. Disbrowe, Minister Plenipotemiary at the Hague, were sent off last evening from the Foreign office. CORN -LAW FALLACIES, WITH THE ANSWERS. (Continued from The Sun of Monday.) 61. Dr. BOWRINO, we re- ANSWER.—Dr. BowIING peat, who has been perpe- has done much towards ex testing dirty jobs for the pre- ploding the dirtiest job of all; sent Government, in nearly —the " job of jobs," as Lord every country in Europe, was King called the Corn-laws in regaled in Manchester, on the House of Lords. H e ‘Vednesday night, by a party his well earned his abuse. of his a d m i rers . M orn i ng Herald, Sept. 24, 1838. 62. —The Irish grievances are worn out ; and something must be done to conciliate the jobbers and schemers, or the Whigs must prepare to bid aileu to Downing-street I The Whigs, therefore, are getting up " the steam" of agitation against the corn laws; —ld. 63.—whilst tools of the stamp of Dr. BOWRING are !sent forth to earn Whig wages, by urging on the manufactur ing " masses" to demand the overthrow of the agricultural interest, and the permanent prostration of native industry before the influences at the disposal of our idle consumers, and our commercial gamblers. —ld. A.—Anything so there be war against the old " job bers and schemers." It might be supposed that there had never been anything like " jobbers and schemers" to keep up rents at the expense of other people. A.—The dishonest agri cultural interest must b e overthrown like other dis honesties. Why should we pay a New Police, if we can not prevent men from taking. the bread out of our mouths another way ? 64. The following is a fair sample of the doctrines which our free-trade philosophers retail at so high a price : " Now, a very serious state of things has come on in con sequence of the existence of these Corn-laws. Nobody can estimate the amount of capi tal withdrawn from agricul ture [in foreign countries] in order to be applied to manu factures [there], in consequence of our not taking from other nations the commodities with which they could ay our goods. The other day, coming down the Danube, an Hun garian nobleman told me that they had quite ceased to think of producing corn for the English market, and that they were turning their capital to manufacturing, as they could not sell their corn. There were boundless quantities of corn in the coun try, but not sufficient clothing for the use of the people, and so the Austrian Government was led to encourage commerce, to discourage English manufactures, and to manufacture for themselves. And this was a state of things which Corn-law Legislation was bringing about in all directions." • * * * Heavy loss, in short,—the most sweeping waste of the resources of national strength—ought to reward this common folly on the part of manufacturing foreigners, and of corn growing Englishmen I—ld. 65. --Yet what say the eco- A.—The speaker quoted nomists themselves to this part says nothing of "commercial of the case? Why, they tell supremacy." The plan is to us, it is true, of the deep in- insert " commercial supre jury which England is inflict- macy" in place of " discou ing on herself;—hut, in the racring English manufactures very same breath, they enlarge on the mighty strides towards and manufacturing for them selves:" But what are the commercial supremacy, which these partners in our alleged Austrians to do? It is we who put on the Milan decree. folly, are making I —ld. They must either manufac ture covering for themselves as well as they can, or paint themselves blue like our ancestors and go without it. A.—And so it does. The Austrians lose as well o.s we. They lose as we should do, if a Milan decree cut off English manufactures from the Continent. The manufacturers grumbled at Napoleon ; but they take a Milan decree quite kindly from the landholders. 6G.—The folly, be it re- A.—Not a word is there membered, is declared to be of " rich and powerful." the same ;—)et , , w gravely assured, that eare the mad- adversary, who would not ness which induces Prussianswants. This is the case of a cru el say what his opponent and Austrians to manufacture for themselves, is making them rich and powerful, whilst the corresponding madness which impels Englishmen to grow their own food is making them, day by day, poorer and more helpless l—ld. 67. —lf Dr. Bo wrallo and A.—lf Dr. BOWRING and his friends speak truly in al- his friends speak truly in al leging that England injures leging that the Morning herself by growing food, it fol- Chronicle injures himself by lows, of necessity, that the insisting on making his own manufacturing nations of the shoes, it follows, of nece. city. Continent must injure them- that the shoemaker would selves still more by their ma nufacturing speculations than injure himself at least as England can do by keeping much, who insisted on making her corn fields under tillage. his own Morning Chronicle. Who doubts it ? But if the shoemaker's necessity for making his own newspaper arises horn the Chronicle's refusing to accept of payment from the shoemaker, then the Chronicle ought to wear two strilight-waistcoats instead of one. 68.—From the Manchester A.—When corn rises, up speech of the Whig Mission- go wages, but not in the ary, we might cull specimens same proportion as the corn. innumerable of nonsense of a When corn falls, down go mischievous character. The wages, but not in the same following example, however, ; proportion as the corn. This must suffice for the present is what puzzles the working The point at issue, it will be classes and the perceived, is, whether a high Tories. The price of corn sustains wages. jobbery is between nominal " I have heard it said," &c. and substantial wages ; too Cheap corn, in other words, astute a difference, it must according to Dr. BOWRING. be allowed, for a common raises wages! Good! But man to understand. what says this worthy apostle of free trade in the passage which follows? Holland, a country," &c. We are first assured, be it observed, that cheap wheat raises wages ;—and then, we are assured, that in Holland, free-trading Holland—wages fall with the fall of wheat, and Ilse as wheat rises ! Truly, Dr. BOWRING is, after all, but a bungler at his craft ;—or else he must presume the public to be as stupid as he is impudent.—ld. 69.—1 t is an acknowledged A.—ln other words, thost• principle of Tory policy that whose profession it is to re to keep things steady in the ccive rents, must increas e country, and to do justice to them at other people's ex all parties under existing cir- pence, or they will be ex cengly uncomfortable. M r. ee d i cumstances, the price of corn must be kept considerably Wilberforce found himself aheve the continental average. --11hrning Post, Sept. 24, directed to " Provide things 1838. honest in the sight of all men," and therefore he voted for the Corn-laws. The other landowners seem to have read with the same commentator What a text for a border chaplain, when the spurs were served for the laird's dinner, and the order given, " Forth, Forbes, and fill the fetters !" . 70.—A less price than from A.—Wait till the manu fifty to sixty shillings for the facturers tell them that " a quarter of wheat must neces- greater price than from fif sarily create a confusion, em- teen to twen t y s hilli ngs f or barrassment, and distress in the quarter of wheat, must the affairs of the country , , „ necessarily create a contu which, if continued, would bring about some fearful con- sion, embarrassment, and vulsion. —ld. distress in the affairs of the country, which, if conti nued, would bring about some fearful convulsion." Is not one just as reasonable as the other,—and just as honest too, if contemplated to be brought about by robbing with the public blunderbuss ? 71.—But there is a yet more A.—The landholdersmade general objection to be urged the Corn-laws, with a view, against the cheap-corn advo- among other things, to rob cates, of which they who love the fundholders who had lent justice and a steady undis- money for the landlords' war, turbed progress of our national by paying them with less affairs should never lose sight. corn ; and they robbed them This country is bound to same landlords would per pounds sterling per annu m for pay twenty-eight millions of accordingly. And then the suede the community to con interest on the National Debt. o ...Now, under this st a t e of tinue to be starved, lest the national circumstances , it fu ndholders should get their is mere madness to labour for rights. Poor and honest the establishment of money - working-classes,}'ouare cheapness. The The cheaper that we make corn and other things rob I in proportion, the dearer we make money, and, conse quently, the greater do we make the burden of the annual twenty-eight millions which we must pay. —ld. is, that having money to pa 72.—What we contend for, A._Abarefaced proposal and not corn, our policy ought coming from the quarter to be to make money cheap ; o ut buy money with that property, which is ever crying and as the owners of property Y, to rob the fundholders, " spoliation" against the nu just as the owners of money' . buy property with that money,policy to steal ; think it , for it is the interest of all tax- but thieves are hanged merous - classes. Thievo may payer s , w h ose p ossess i ons con - it, sometimes sooner than sist of corn or ether goods, or they calculated on. of the power to labour, or of any thing else except money, or stock, bearing a fixed inter est, to have money cheap. Id. 73.—Every labourer who A.—lt can be reduced as , buys tea, and sugar, an d g i n , to two t hi r d parts ; for the and bacco must pay a consider soap, and beer, an d t o - sav i nas of the G over nment from t cheapness ' o h of the able portion of his earnings in tax. Now, the manufacturer things they buy, may be aP says that be wants the Corn- plied to meeting one half of laws repealed, because he the increase of value paid to wishes to have labour as cheap the fundholders, by t a king as it is where the corn is cheap, off taxes to the same a mount. and thus be the better able to Which the writer has taken compete with the foreign ma- care to forget ; and so will nufactwer. Well, the mere the Government. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1838. nhuerermo sub theus labourer find a similar re- ti reduction in the price of corn But happily, a ll i s no t J o t n a won't do that ;he must reduce tax. When receive the higher the labourer's wages. But willc / wage s ,i ncons abundanceeq u e n c c e f duction in the things which he f a an i ncreased now purchases with his wages? corn, they must receive what It is impossible, for a consi will enable them to eat more, derable part of the price of these things is tax, and the ins pite of the taxes. For tax cannot be reduced, except if not, the corn must be as to one-third part of it. —ld. thrown away ; it is plain it cannot be sold. 74.—1 t would be well if all the clamourers for cheap wheat had the fairness of old COBBETT, who admitted, with the cheap wheat, must come what he called " equitable ad justment ;" but what would be, in fact, a national bank ruptcy. We can pay to the public creditor twenty-eight millions of pounds sterling per annum, while we can buy three pounds sterling in Mark-lane with a quarter of wheat : but if we had to give two quarters of wheat for that amount of sterling money, it is by no means so clear, but very much the contrary, that we could continue to pay the public creditor twenty-eight millions a-year. —ld. A.—ls it not just as much a national bankruptcy, as it is What is a national bankruptcy, if paying 10s. in the pound is not ? The na tional creditors lent their money for the landlords' war. The moment there came peace, the landlords said— " Lay on the Corn-laws, and then we shall pay them with one quarter of corn instead of two." Can the thing be made worse ? But honest men (turd the classes which are now rising in the political horizon are honest) will neither rob by the Corn-laws, nor after wards. 75.—Some of the labourers are foolish enough to think that that is no affair of theirs, but only concerns those W ho have money in the stocks. There they are very much mis taken, and if some of their leaders were not fonder of re volution than of truth, they would tell them so. —ld. A.—Try no hoaxes on the labouring classes. You will be horribly afraid of them by-and-by ; and there is no use in making them sa vage. The labouring classes are entreated not to make a national bankruptcy ; and you have made one already. What you have done, the labouring classes, when the time comes, will undo. (TO BE CONTINUED. ANTI-CHURCH-RATE MEETING AT EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM. On Monday evening, a public meeting, convened by a number of the most influential rate-payers of the parish of Edgbaston, was held in a large building adjoining the exten sive chemical works of the Messrs. Sturge, Islington, to receive information on the extraordinary circumstances under which two Church-rates lately imposed on the inhabitants of the parish, had been granted, and to consider what steps should be taken in regard to these rates. About half-past six o'clock, WILLIAM SCHOLEFIELD, Esq., High Bailiff of Birmingham, whose residence is situated in the parish of Edgbaston, was called to the chair amidst ge neral acclamation, and proceeded to read the advertisement by which the meeting had been convened. He then observed it would be unnecessary to remind those present, that they had been called together on the present occasion, not only to receive information, but to suggest what steps it might be deemed necessary to take in the present circumstances of the parish. The subject which they had met to consider was an important one, and for his own part he confessed that if the meeting was merely to content itself with protesting against the present rate, he for one should not have come amongst them that evening —if it was good in principle he would be the last to lay hold of a technical objection to get rid of it ; but it was because he felt Church-rates to be unjust that he had come forward, with others, to aid and assist in opposing them.—( Cheers.) Church-rates were so well known, especially in Birmingham, and were proved to be so flagrant a violation of the rights of equity and conscience, and se inju rious to the Church itself, of which he was a member and sin cere well-wisher, that he most anxiously desired to see them removed.—(Cheers.) Indeed, if he needed any additional inducement to endeavour to rid their statutes of the obnoxious law that rendered Church-rates legal, he was sure that in. ducement would be afforded by the cruel, unjust, and tyran nical persecution which had been so relentlessly carried on against some of the most inoffensive of their fellow-towns men, whose only crime was their consistent opposition to this oppressive impost. —( Loud cheers.) JOSEPH STUEO2 here presented himself to the meet ing, and was received with much cheering. He said, before the business for which they had assembled was entered upon, perhaps it would be as well briefly to put them in possession of the facts which had led to the present meeting. A few days ago three or four of his neighbours called upon him and stated that they thought the last Church-rates im posed upon the parish had been granted under circumstances that called for investigation, and they did not conceal their opinion that they considered the rates illegal. He told them that he had opposed Church-rates all his life from principle, as a proof of which he had suffered his goods to be taken out of his house rather than pay them ; and, viewing them as a legal robbery, he should consider it his duty to join in tak ing any legal exception to the mode in which the present rates had been imposed.--( Cheers.) A few individuals met the same evening, at which some fresh facts were elicited, when it was resolved as the most fair and candid modo of proceeding, to call a public meeting of the parishioners for the purpose of taking the subject into consideration. With regard to the signatures attached to the requisition, that sub ject required some explanation and perhaps apology, as many of the parishioners had no opportunity of attaching their names, and one list that had been signed, from some cause, was not delivered in thee for publication.—(Hear.) He might perhaps be allowed on that occasion to state dis tinctly the grounds on which the Society to which he belonged (the Quakers), had for nearly two centuries allowed their goods to be taken rather than consent grounds to pay Church-rates.— ( Hear.) They di d so rounds ; first, because they reg ar ded that impost as on cr a violation of justice • and secondly, and principally,iebser• ) causeit was a violation of the rights of con sc ience.—( l Some of their Episcopalian friends thou g ht they were rather factious in this their opposition to Church-rates ; but ifthey would place themselves for a m ome nt in their s it ua tion, and suppose that the Catholics, or Independents, or Baptists, or Quakers, or any other body of Dissenters got the upper hand, and imposed a compulsory and exclusive rate forthe of, they of that peculiar form of worship they would soon see the force of the which they approvede issenters now entertained against the pay objection which merit of this tax.—.(Cheers.) Under the strong conviction was a violation of the rights of conscience, he could that it never contribute to the support of a Church Establishment which he believed was not founded on true Christian principles There were, h o wever, circumstances connected with th e pre epeculiarr character, which would perhaps b e best sent rates of a explained by r eading to the meeti n g two or three of the mi nutes of the Vestry entered in the parish books, co pi es o f which he heldinhis hand.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. Sturge here proceeded to read a resolution come to at a vestry meeting, held in the peri s h -church on the 22 d of September, 1834, to the effect " that iu future the churchwardens shall give a fort_ night's previous n otice, by advertisement in Aria's Gazette (a paper published in Birmingham), of all parish meetings, and that such advertisement be inserted twice." On the 21st of July, in the present sent y e ar, there was a vestry me e ti ng h e ld in the parish-church, w hen a notice was issued for a meet ing of parishioners (also on the I st of August , " for the purpose of or the repairs and ex of granting a ra nd also a fu thor n rther y rate, for the pu p rpose enses of th e church ; l o t of land to enla r ge the present church.. purchasing a p a yar d, and enclo sin g and fencing the same, as specifi e d i n the estimates to be laid before the meeting, and at the to pass the churchwardens' accounts." This no_ same time. d James Busby and James Upfill, Church wardens. (Hear,ticewaee_sigahear.) Here they not only omitted to ad vertise,vestry, but, rather fixed on the Ist of August to pass according o the minutes of the many of the singularly he thought, they n h g en the freedom of the rates (it might beabgyedpuinreteavicncidceenletb),ratwi rarishioners were engaged the Negro I—(Laughter, and cries of " Hear, hear.") O r eth a t day, a rate of 3d. in th e p ound was granted in the te rms o f the resolution on the pari sh books, " for the necessary repairs and expenses of the Church, and also to reimburse the late churchwardens the money advanced by them in their accounts for the last year, namely, 351. 175., and the payment of the unpaid bills, amounting to 91. 103." At the same meeting it was also resolved, " that a rate of 6d. in the pound be now granted and signed, for the purpose of purchasing a plot of land adjoining the present church-yard ; for enlarging the same and fencing it, and to defray the expense thereof as specified in the estimate now laid before the Vestry."----( Hear, hear.) He would leave others to judge if anything of this kind had been done in private life between man and man, what would have been thought of it ?—( Hear.) Was there not at least a moral obligation, enforced, too, by their own previous resolution, to let the ratepayers know they were going to as sess them ? But no notice was given of such an intention ex cept to those who attended the Church and saw it on the door. The Church party, as it was called, were in the habit of boast ing that they comprised the wealthiest and most respectable portion of the community ; but although he might belong to the poor Dissenters, he would not have sanctioned such a pro ceeding for the amount of the rate itself, and the value of the Church and the Church-yard together.—(Cheers.) It might perhaps be said by those who enforced the rate, " We have the law in our favour, and we will have it whether it is founded on justice or not." Now, if this was their ground, it only served still more strongly to prove the case of the Dissenters, that a Church Establishment was not founded on Christian principles.—( Hear, and cheers.) The Gospel told them to do unto others as they would wish others to do unto them ; and if they would only act in accord ance with thi s sacre d comman d, h e w as persuaded they would bear very littl e more a b out Ch urc h-rates.—(Cheers.) Suc h were the pec u li ar c i rcumstances o f this case, that although the denomination to which he belonged might not generally be very anxious to make converts, be trusted many of those pre. sent would a c t as t h e Q ua k ers did upon this subject, and suf fer their good s to b e ta k en ra th e r than do violence to their principles by p ay i ng t h e rate; f or , in addition to other grounds in the case bef ore t h em, h e b e lieved the parties who acted in i the manner be h a d d escr ib e d wo uld be found to have vi olated law quite as muc h as t h ey h a d violated equity. If he had spoken warmly upon this subject, or used any expression thate might be construed into personal offence to an y one,he begged to assure them that it was not the result of any ill feeling towards th ose i n di v iduals, for he firmly believed the greatest good h e cou ld d o t o the Members of the Episcopalian h Church itself wou ld b e to duce them to give up at once and for ever this odious and unjust import._( Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Sturge concluded by moving the first resolution, " That this meeting considers the enforcement of Church-rates a violation of the principles of justice, and of the rights of conscience." WILLIAM REDFERN, Esq., in coming forward to move the first resolution, said he had been requested by his worth; friend, Mr. Sturge, to afford the meeting some e:Tosition of what he conceived to be the law of the case ; and at the out- set he felt happy indeed in being able to state that that expo sition would he of a gratifying nature, since he thought he should be able to show that the par Jes to whom they were oppc,stl on that occasion had net even the law in their favour. In the prosecutian of his inquiries he was desirous, in the first instance, of ascertaining what the ane'e it common law of the land on this subject was; whether, accordi! g to that ancient common law, setting aside all new-fan led n t .rations introduced by modern statutes, there was any power in a parish vestry to maLe a rate, not for the purpose of repairing (about vroicii there could be no doubt), but fur the purpose of enlarg ing a Church-yard.—( Hoar, hear.) He had not, however, proceeded far in his inquiries before he cams to the conclusion that there was no such power; for as the authority •on which he mainly relied for information in the matter was Dr. Burn, an eminent civilian and practitioner in the Ecclesiastical Courts, and therefore naturally disposed to stretch to the utmost the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, he (Mr. IL) felt safe in believing that the entire absence of any mention of such power was in itself a conclusive proof that no such power did exist. So much, then, for the ancient common law of the land upon the subject.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Redfern) was not, however, satisfied with this result. He knew the grasping and extortionate spirit of the Church—( Hear, hear)—he knew that the Church never slept—that it was always awake to its own selfish interests, and eagerly availed itself of every oppor tunity for aggrandizing and enriching itself.—( Hear, hear.) He thought, therefore, that it was not at all unlikely that a clause granting some power of this nature might have been slily slipped into some obscure nook or corner of some modern Act of Parliament. He accordingly set to work to rum mage the Statutes at large, and sure enough he at last alighted on a clause wlfich he supposed had served as a foundation for the grant of the rate in question.—( Hear, hear.) He should first read the clause to which he referred, and then explain the reasons which induced him to think that the formalities required by the Act had net been complied with. The clause was the 36th section of the 39th Geo. 111. c. 134, and it ran as follows : " That all such parishes as shall be required by the Com missioners for executing that Act, shall furnish lands for en larging existing churchyards, or for making such additional churchyards as the Commissioners may deem necessary to be enlarged, and that as soon as the Commissioners shall have fixed upon any parish, as being one in which it was necessary that the churchyard should be enlarged, they shall give no tice to the Churchwardens thereof, and the part of the parish, or the extra parochial place within which the same is required to be provided ; and the said Churchwardens shall, within the space of fourteen days, call a meeting of the Vestry of the parish, for the purpose of taking all such measures as may be necessary for providing such additional churchyard ; and in case such parish shall not be able to provide the same, with out purchase, then the Vestry shall forthwith proceed to treat for a piece of ground, according to such notice, but shall not conclude any bargain for the same, without the approba- tion of the Commissioners." Now (continued Mr. Redfern), there were two things that struck him fcrcibly on the perusal of this Act. The first was that the Churchwardens could not take the initiative in the matter, but that, in the first instance, a formal notice must have been given to them by the Church-building Commis sioners ; and, secondly, that a Vestry meeting must be sum. moned within fourteen days after the service of the notice, for the purpose of taking such measures as may be necessary for providing the additonal Churchyard.—( Cheers.) With re spect to the first of these points, he should like very much to know whether any such notice bad been given by the Church. building Commissioners.—( No, no.) He had made diligent in quiry about this matter—he had inquired of Mr. Upfill, the present Warden, of Messrs. Bedford and Spencer, who were professionally concerned, of Mr. Fletcher, the collector of the parish rates, and the custos of the parish books, but no where, neither in the one place nor in the other, could he find any vestige or trace of this same notice, and he confessed his own strong opinion was, that no such notice had in fact been given.—( Hear, hear.) He might, perhaps, go a step farther, and say that from a certain quarter (which he was not at liberty more par ticularly to mention) he had received a pretty broad hint that he was quite right in this conjecture—( Laughter and cheers. ) Now, if this were so, it was clear that the rate in question was not worth a straw.—(Loud cheers.) But even admitting that a notice had been duly given by the Church-building Com missioners and that the meeting was convened within fourteen days after this notice had been served, even then he contended that the meeting was not convened by the Churchwardens in conformity to the Act of Parliament. The Act says "The meet ing shall be convened for taking all such means as may be neces sary for providing the additional churchyard or burying ground." But what says the notice? Why it calls the meeting for the purpose of granting a rate for purchasing the land. The Act in effect says " You, the parish vestry, shall make all these arrangements ; we leave it to you to provide the addi tional churchyard, and to treat for the purchase of the land." " 0 no," says the Notice, " nothing of the kind —we, the Churchwardens, have done all these things already ; we have treated for the purchase of the land, and have made all the necessary arrangements, and all we want you to do is to grant the rate."—( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. R.) contended that there was a plain arid palpable discrepancy between this notice and the terms of the Act of Parliament. lie contended, indeed, that no meeting had been held for the purpose " of taking measures" for providing an additional churchyard, and therefore that the rate was illegal.—(Cheers.) At that meet ing, however, not only was a rate granted for enlarging the churchyard, but one was likewise granted for repairing the church. Now if he had doubts as to the validity of the former rate, still greater were his doubts as to the validity of the lat ter—doubts, indeed, amounting almost to conviction in the opposite direction.—( Cheers.) There was no rule of law more completely settled than this--that no Church-rate could be granted for the purpose of reimbursing the expenses of a former churchwarden ; and that if any such rate were granted, it should be null and void.—( Cheers.) He called upon them, then, to mark the terms of the resolution by which the rate now under consideration was granted; they were—" That a rate of three-pence in the pound be now granted and signed for the necessary repairs and expenses of the church for the current year, and also to reimburse the late churchwardens the money advanced by them in their accounts for the last year." Why, there was a palpable blunder on the ' very face of this resolution—(Cheers)—and so convinced was he of the illegality of the procecdieg that he would pledge his professional reputation, that if any one would resist the rate it could not be enforced against him.—( Loud applause. ) Having made these remarks on the legal merits of the case, he would now glance at a few of the more general topics connected with it. They had been told by Mr. Sturge, that in the year 1834, an understanding had been entered into, which might very properly be regarded, he thought, as an agree ment between the Dissenters of the pariah on the onehand, and the Churchmen on the other, that no Vestry meeting should in Edgbaston, in addition to the general objection stated in this previous resolution, are, in the opinion of this meeting, a vio latioe cf a moral, if not legal obligation, inasmuch as the fol lowing resolution was passed by th Vestry on the 22d of Sep temher. 1834—` That in future the Churchwardens shall give a fortnight's notice, by advertisement, in Ari's Gazelle, of all parish meetings, and that such :advertisement be in set. ed tyke.' and no such advertisement was published previous to granting the rates at the meeting on the Ist of August lest." He had iefused the rate when the collector cal . e I upon him ; and he did so for the reason assigned in the resolution he had just read. Yes—he believed it was unjust, and a gross viola tion .1 a moral obligation to call for the rate without comply ing :liar the notice which the rate-payers had a right to ex pect. What saith the just God—fishy, that "he hated rob bery for bi oTerings;" and he woola ask them cc old they consider the present rate in any other light than a robb .ry, al though and e. the colour of law ? He it Is glad, however, to hear from the Learned Advocate who had jut addressed them. that the Churchwardens had not law on th... 3 occasion) and that a successful resistance could be legally males to the pay ment of the uajust demand ma d e upon them. Mil,: saith the great Master, the head of the Church ? He told the:o to " call no min master upon earth," in his admirable eermt.: l upon the mount; and concluded that ever memorable address by telling them that " they should do unto others as they would wish others should do unto them." Now, he desired, in all his transactions in life with his fellow-man, to be guided by that golden--that heavenly rule.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He did not wish the Episcopalians to defray the expense of maintaining his religion, and he ( Mr. Swan) was determined that he would not willingly pay for the sup port of the religion of another denomination. He trusted if the present rate was generally demanded it would be resisted, and then they would have what they called in his country a fine rattling, and they would then see what would be the re salt. Besides he could not pay the rate without stultifying himself. He bad for many years past concurred with the people of Birmingham in their resistance to Church-rates. He had argued upon its injustice, and done all in his power to in duce others not to pay, and he could not with any degree of c nasistency pay the rate in Edgbaston.--( Hear.) He had the happiness to preside over a congregation who had at a great expense built and paid for the maintenance of their own place of worship. In fact, they then paid from 8001. to 1,0001. a year for the support of religion amongst themselves and others in the neighbourhood. They not only supplied themselves, but they contributed towards the establishment of religion in every part of the world; and what enhanced in his estimation the value of this offering was, that it came from a congrega tion the majority of whom lived by the work of their hands.—( Loud cheers.) It came from the industrious, the all-important, the productive class. Why then should they be called upon to pay a compulsory rate for the maintenance of another religion. He would ask the High Bailiff could he, with any degree of fairness, have taken that chair if the meeting bad been convened for the purpose of en forcing money from them for the support of the highest, the most favoured, the most respectable, and the richest Church in the country?—( Hear, hear.) Yes, the Church of England boasted of being possessed of the wealth and respectability of the land, and yet they found themselves unable or unwilling to pay the expense of their Church. Was it to be endured that they should be called upon to pay for the religion of the few gentlemen who worshipped in the little Church of Edgbaston? __(Cries of " No, no !") Was it justice that they should be compelled to do so ?—(" No, no.") Then he hoped they would not pay.—( Cheers.) The fact was, they dare not pay it.—(Renewed cheers.) They dare not, as conscientious men, countenance such a glaring injustice in the name of the holy religion they professed. The next objection referred to in the resolution was, that it was a violation of the rights of conscience.—( Hear.) Now he declared that he considered it a violation of the rights of conscience to demand money from him under such circumstances, and he had refused the rate, because he could not conscientiously pay it. Reli gion, in his opinion, was a matter solely between man and his Maker. It was a most serious and important subject, and in finitely above the reach of men's meddling. Religion was a subject upon which men could not legislate, without making the most egregious mistakes. Eery day's experience proved that fact. The history of all past ages proved that fact. What did the present system of legislation do in England ? Why, it exhibited their rulers supporting Papacy in Canada, Idolatry in India, Presbyterianism in Scotland, and Episco palianism in England.--( Hear, hear.) Only let them just think what a tissue of absurdity was here exhibited, and all to be attributed by State meddling and State legislation in religion. He conscientiously objected to the establishment of any religion by the State. He objected to State religion in any shape or form, because they could not establish or endow, for that was the whole of the matter, any one Church, without injustice to those who dissent from it. He went, therefore, at once, and without any reservation, for the separation of the Church from the State.—(Hear.) By re. fusing to pay Church-rates or Tithes, he considered he was fully and entirely advocating that doctrine. Every man who refused to pay Church-rates went for separation, and every man who fancied be did not was only misleading himself. It was a natural consequence, and one most heartily to be desired. He felt thoroughly convinced that, until that separation took place, there would be no solid or lasting peace in the country. If he did not go for the separation of the Church from the State, he would at once pay the rate. The connection of Church and State was the great evil—the root of all evil, An Established Church must of necessity be the predominant Church, and trample upon all other Churches in the country. The present Establishment had done so, and he did not hesitate to say, sooner or later its connection with the State must cease. Yes, he would say, the Established Church as such, could not exist. He did not wish to speak of forms of religion, but he must say he could not conscientiously support that form which recognised the right of a bench of Bishops to sit as Legislators, and whose general conduct was inimical to the rights and li berties of mankind. He could not give money for the support of a Ci,urch, a majority of whose ministers were worldly minded men, fox hunters, and such like. He could not sup pert a Church, which, r oevithstan ling all,:its immense wealth, had kept the people in ignorance. He admired all the good men of the Established Church, and was willing to admit there were many good and zealous men amongst them, but he could not support a religion which had been, and was still pro ductive of so much evil. But he did not object so much upon the defects of the Church as upon principle. He took his stand lama the , rinciel hat it was . t., unjust to compel one m an to pay fu ,p r le the religion of another. Such were the reasons which had induced him to attend that meeting, and take part in the pro ceedings. He had stated his opinions freely and candidly, because he cared not if all the world knew them. He hoped the time was near at hand when the question would be finally settled. He trusted Lord John Russell was thinking of some means by which the matter would be put to rest. He hoped there would be no commutation principle introduced, because he felt confident the people would never consent to any such arrangement. The Church. rates must not he saddled upon the general taxation of the country—if so, there would be grent dissatisfaction created, and the evil complained of still continue. He hoped the day was not far distant when every man would support his own religion, and be required to sup port no other, and then they would live in Christian peace and brotherhood. future be held without a precious advertisement in iris's G a zette. It. would seem, too, that to give as binding a sanction as possible to this agreement it was reduced into writing, was passed as a formal resolution at a vestry meeting, and was re corded amongst the parish minutes, and there it continued up to the present day.—( Hear, hoar.) He felt then with Mr. Sturge, that they had great reason to complain of the utter disregard of an agreement so deliberately entered into ; he should not be far wrong, indeed, if he denounced that disre gard as a most unjustifiable breach of good faith between man and man.—( Cheers.) But there was one plea that might, perhaps, be set up fur the select vestry. It might be said Olt, as the compact he had alluded to had been made so long ago as 1834, they hrd forgotten it. If this plea should be urged, all ho could say was, that it had not the slightest foundation in fact; for he was able to state, on the authority of Mr. Upfill, the churchwarden, who reminded the select vestry of the resolution amongst their minutes, and asked whether he was to advertise the meeting, and what was their reply ? Did they say that the law prohibited them from complying with the resolution ; or that they would incur any legal penal ties by doing so; or that there was any one obstacle either of law or of convenience in the way of it? No ; the answer was simply this, that the law did not require them to advertise.— ( Shame , shame.) And they were perfectly right in this ; the law did not require them to do so. Unquestionably there was no Court of Law that would recognize the agreement ; but he was also sure that there was no court of honour that would not recognize it; and he felt some pleasure in reflecting that if the agreement could not be enforc d ed either ld by Judge or Jury, at all events its violation could, and cannot, and visited u by public indignation. —(Cheers.) outrage, the impunity thus tb trifle . with, andd m ou s t t b th e e p t e )l r a m in it e t s e t d , and commonest, and most elementary principles that bind society together, and make man place faith in man.—. (Renewed cheers.) He should like to know, t oo , f or w h at reason the gentlemen of the Select Vestry were so reluctant to advertise the meeting ? Ilow was it that they were so anxious to avoid publicity ? What was it that made them prefer the comfort and snuggery of what was little more than a select vestry, to the openness and freedom of a fair parish meeting? He would tell the meeting what it was— they knew very well that if the Vestry Meeting had been properly advertised—if due notice bad been given —it would have been numerously at tended; it would hare been attended by all who were there that night, and by many more besides—by Dissenters as well as by Churchmen. They knew very well, too, that a spirit of opposition to Church -rates had sprung up in the parish, and was spreading day by day.—( Cheers.) It was for these reasons that they saw fit not to advertise the meeting—it was for these reasons that they put the notice of the meeting on the church door, and then cunningly locked the churchyard gates.—(Great laughter.) But good sometimes came out of evil ; and he believed that such would be the case on the pre sent occasion. His own opinion was, that if the gentlemen of the Select Vestry had been satisfied with going on in their old jog-trot pace—levying a rate of only 3d. in the pound —not a little finger would have been stirred in opposition. But this did not satisfy them ; they must try their hands at something more ambitious—they must have a ninepenny rate. He was glad they had made the attempt, for his firm conviction was, that, by doing so, they had sealed the doom of Church-rates for ever in that parish. ( Mr. Redfern concluded, amidst loud cheers, by seconding the resolution. The Rev. TIIOMAS SWAN, Baptist minister, rose to move the second resolution, and was received with applause. He said his duty would have called him to attend a prayer meeting that evening in the chapel over which he presided, but he con sidered the present a more important duty, and he was not, ashamed to app ear th ere h um bl y to a d vocate t h e c ause of truth, justice, and liberty, and he might say, the cause of re ligion. H e h a d b een requested to move t h e re solution e of he held in hi s hand, and which was as follows—" That th Church -rates, n ow i n t h e course o f co llection in the parish_ JAMES JAMES, Esq., seconded the resolution. He regret ted that he was called upon, from principle, to dif f er with any poition of his fellow Christians, but being conscientiously op posed to compulsory exactions fog the support of religion, be could not, of course, refuse his assent to the resolution before the meeting. He wished most heartily that some measure could be devised to do away with Church -rates, and conse quently those ill feelings and dissensions which arise from the collecting of them. He would say, let the Established Church keep all she had, and cease t) ask more, and he, for one, would willingly close all difference between them. With respect to the min;stcrs of the Established Church, he must say there were amongst them many amiable and excellent men, and he had lived long enough to see a marked difference in the character of that body. There were amongst them excellent men, and if they continued to increase in piety and religion as they had of late years, he felt certain they would see that the best interests of the Church would be promoted by the total abolition of all cause of uneasiness to the community. The resolution was put and seconded. The Rev. Hue!' HUTTON, Unitarian Minister, in moving the next resolution for the appointment of a Committee, briefly addressed the meeting. He said be bad risen from ,a sick bed to attend the meeting, and nothing but a conviction of the great importance of the subject could have induced him to have attended. He received an invitation to attend, and he could not resist.—(Hear.) He had refused to pay Church rates for many years past. He had acted upon the principle of passive resistance, and he had great pleasure in stating that he had never been troubled by the Church authorities.— ( Hear, hear.) The question had been so ably handled by pre vious speakers, that he should not further occupy their time. Mr. JAMES BAKER seconded the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously. Captain MOORSOM moved the next resolution. It was as an Episcopalian that he had great pleasure in taking part in the proceedings of that evening. He most cordially assented to the first resolution, which declared that the enforcement of Church-rates was a violation of the principle of justice, and of the rights of conscience. He was sure religion suffered most by the exaction of such rates as they were that evening met to oppose. —( Hear, hear.) He had never attended a vestry meeting in that parish, because he thought every thing was carried sub silentio ; but if he found such an opposition was likely to be given to Church-rates as had been that night pretty strongly hinted at, he should attend in future. Wm. BOLITER, Esq., vconded the resolution: He said . it was rather an Irish mode of doing business for hi m to stand te u k up there to oppose the payment of a rate which 0 o h r c alled at his he had already paid.—( Laughter.) The fact was, the rannown house for the rate, and one of his familypaeidliteheet to him. He was always of opinion that c oinpulsory payments for the support of religion was bad. to te H n e had Kadin his time or twelve different ministers of the Established e to pay tithes and Church-rates ;Church, although he or his family bad never received e i t h e r reproof or encouragement from one of Gentl emen to whose support he had been compelled to contribute . And what was the reason he the Rev. t bu had not derived any benefitfrom their ministry ?—because he had been forced t o support them. The truth was the people and the parsons would be better friends if the latter would be content with the _ vo luntary support of the former.—( Hear.) JOHN GREEN , bsq., Mr. HULL, and other gentlemen, after wards addressed the meeting, and a vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the meeting separated. SUGAR.—We understand that, from the Ist of January to the sth of Septcmhur, 1838, the decrease in the weight of refined sugar expo r t e d was, as compare d w ith th e corresponding period of 1837, 26,000 ; namely, 79,000 in 1838, and 105,000 in 1837. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Count Salomas, at the Weymouth Boarding House, Weymouth -street, Portland-place ; Mrs. and Miss Yates, at the Berners Hotel, Berner -street, from the Isle of Wight; Mrs. Grange and family, at ditto, from Liverpool. DEPARTURES. The Marquis de Lingo, from the Weymouth Boarding House, Weymouth-street, Portland-place, for Paris ; the Count Accto and family, from ditto, for Naples. CHANGES. Lord Craven, at Gorhambury, Herts, from a shooting ex cursion in Scotland ; the Marquis of Abercorn, from Kin rara Cottage, in the Highlands, for Baron's Court, Strabane; Lord Sandys, from Dublin, on a tour in the west of Ireland ; Lord and Lady Waterpark, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, at Dalmeny Park, Mid Lothian, from a tour ; Lord Strangford, at Ashford House, Kent, from Can terbury ; the Honourable John Stuart, at the Earl of Mornay's scat, Tarnaway Castle, North Britain, from a shooting excursion ; Lord Leveson, from Drummond Castle, the seat of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, for Castle Howard; Lord Aberdour, at Dalmahoy Castle, the seat of the Earl of Morton, in Mid Lothian, from the head-quarters of the 71st Regiment, at Montreal, Canada; Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, on a visit to the Earl Minto, at Minto Castle, Roxburgh, from Blair Adam ; the Duke and Duchess of Leinster and the Marquis of Kildare, from Elvaston House, the seat of the Earl of Warrington, in Derbyshire, for Carton House, near Dublin ; Lord George Bentinck, at Doncaster, from a grouse-shooting excursion, to the Moors of Scotland. Her Majesty has subscribed 3001. in aid of Church extension in Scotland. ___ _ Her Majesty the Queen Dowager will leave town on Monday next, for Portsmouth, to embark on board her Majesty's ship Hastings. Her Majesty's suite will leave town on the preceding day. A part of the domestic establishment leaves Marlborough House this day for Portsmouth. Her Majesty entertained a very select party to dinner yesterday (confined to the members of her Household), and has been in the enjoyment of improved health since her sojourn at Bushy. The Prince George of Cambridge passed through this city (Exeter) on Saturday evening, stopping about an hour for refreshment at the New London Inn. His Royal __Jghness, who was attended by Colonel Cornwall, then pro ceeded on his road to Falmouth, where he will embark on board the Braganza steam-packet for Gibraltar. After his stay at Gibraltar, his Royal Highness will make a continental tour, and will travel under the title of Lord Culloden.— Western Luminary. Earl Cadogan will arrive in town the latter end of this week from a tour of visits. His Lordship, after staying a few days in town, proceeds to Venice, to join the Countess and the Ladies Augusta and Honora Cadogan, who have been present during the festivies at the Coronation of the Emperor of Austria. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster will leave Heaton Park, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Wilton, on Saturday or Monday next, for Eaton Hall, Che shire, for the season. The Marquis of Douro, M.P., left Norwich yester day, fcr Oakley Park, near Eye, on a visit to Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., M. P., and Lady Kerrison. The Duke of Sutherland left Trentham Hall, in Staffordshire, on Sunday morning, for Glasgow. His Grace will not visit Dunrobin Castle this year. The Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis of Staf ford, and the Ladies Gower, left Trentham Hall yesterday for town. The Duke of Richmond, with a large party of Noblemen and Gentlemen, left Gordon Castle on Monday week for Glenfidich, to enjoy the sport of deer-stalking.L Aberdeen Herald. The Duke (le Staepoole arrived in town yesterday from Scarborough. His Grace intends to pass the winter at his magnificent hotel in Paris. The Marchioness Dowager of Hastings and Lady Flora have been seeing company this month at Loudon Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and the family will leave St. James's. square about the close of the next week. They will embark from the River in a Govern ment yacht, for St. Petersburg. Lady Catherine Barham has returned to town from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Vendetta, at Gorhambury, Herts. HEATON PARK, MONDAY.—The Earl and Countess of Wilton give a series of dinners this week to the company visiting them during the Races, and to several of the nobility attending the meeting. Covers for thirty-six or forty will be laid each day. The Marquis of Westminster arrived early on Saturday, as also the Earl and Countess of Chester field, Viscount Castlereagh, and Viscount Jocelyn. The Mar chioness of Westminster arrived in the evening from town. Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, and his son, Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, are expected from Sandbeck Park, the seat of the Earl of Scarborough. Lord George Bentinck, Earl of Eglintoun, Count and Countess Zavadow sky, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, Count Zichy, Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, Hon. Sydney Herbert, M.P., Hon. J. Macdonald, Lord and Lady Seymour, and Lord and Lady Suffield, will be among the nobility staying on visits to the Earl and Countess of Wilton. The Races commence on Wednesday, and terminate on Friday. Sir John Lubbock and Co. have authorised us to contradict the paragraph which appeared in the Cintrier of Monday night, and in the Morning Herald and some other papers yesterday ; as they never had, nor intend to have, an establishment in the United States, nor have they a banking or mercantile account with any house in that country. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Lord and Mr. Cecil Forester, Colonel and the Honourable Mrs. An son, Lord Gardner, &c., arrived at Heaton Hall, the seat of the Earl of Wilton, on Monday last, from Rocking ham Castle. Lord Fitzwilliam and his son arrived here on Monday, from a visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, at Haddo House.—Aberdeen Herald. Lady Burghersh is on a visit to her father, Lord Maryborough, at the lately-taken villa at Islevrorth. Early in October her Ladyship will proceed to Paris to join her Lord. Lord Prudhoe has been prevented from proceeding to Alawick Castle by a sudden fit of the gout. Loid and Lady Wharncliffe have left town for their seat, Wortley Hall, near Sheffield, after taking their leave of her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Bushy Park. Lady Dover, accompanied by her youthful sons, Viscount Clifden and Lord Dover, have arrived at Goren Castle, Kilkenny. Lady Francis Egerton has arrived at Worsley Hall, Lancashire, from a visit to the Duchess. Countess of Suther and. His Lordship was to leave Aberdeen yesterday, to join his lady and family. Sir Benj. Hall, Bart., M.P., passed through Bir mingham on Friday last, from Scotland, for his seat in Wales. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, accompa nied by their daughter, Lady Mary Talbot, and his Highness Prince Doria Pamphilli, have left their residence in Stanhope street, for Paris, en route to the Papal States. Earl and Countess Bruce arrived in town on Mon day afternoon, from a tour on the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle and Lady Eliza beth Howard are expected in Grosvenor- place, on Friday week, from Castle Howard, Yorkshire, and will leave early in the succeeding week for Paris, where they intend to pasy the winter. Mr. and Lady Anne Tollernache have arrived in town, from the residence of the Duke and Duchess of So merset, at Leamington Spa. The Hon. Gentleman and his Lady shortly take their departure on a Continental tour. Captain and Lady Mary Hood are on a visit to the Dowager Lady Hood, Whitley Abbey, Coventry. We learn from Berne that the Duke de Montebello returned to that town on the evening of the 20th, from a tour through several of the Cantons, during which he is said to have endeavoured to conciliate certain Statesmen in favour of the demands of the French Cabinet. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—Mr. Peake, the worthy and highly-respected treasurer of this theatre, took his annual benefit last night, which; we are happy to say, was most numerously and fashionably attended. The entertainments, which were varied and amusing, consisted of Barnet's popular opera of The Mountain Sylph, the first time it has been played this season. The principal characters were sustained by Misses P. Horton and Poole, and Messrs. Shrivall and Stretton; the two latter were encored in their respective songs of " Canst thou love yet coldly fly me?" and" Farewell to the Mountain." A concert followed the opera, in which Madame Feron and Senor Huerta (who was encored), gave their assistance. The concert was succeeded by Peake's own force of The Middle Temple, in which little Keeley and his wife played their ori ginal characters of Brutus Hairbrain and Penelope, the latter introducing the song of " Young Susan had Lovers," the re petition of which was loudly called for. 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